Dawn Engle's Blog (8)

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If we make the top 100 list we'll get $25k and be eligible to win $1,000,000. So please take a second to vote, invite your friends,… Continue

We had a great weekend as the PeaceJam Affiliate Coordinators from all over the USA came to town for a retreat! There was great bonding, planning and inspiration and I think we're all going into today with a lot of energy and excitement!



The PeaceJam.org website also crashed during the weekend which wasn't so fun, but we got it back up today and managed to do a few updates during the process. Check it out and see if you can find the changes!…



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PeaceJam VISTA Pantea Beigi has a lot of reasons to be interested in what's happening in Iran right now - having family over there is a major one of them. She was born in Iran and moved to the USA in her teens, where she graduated college and has worked in many fields, two of which… Continue

The wait is over! PeaceJam’s new site is online and active, eagerly waiting for you to come register an account and start participating! The new website will unite youth, PeaceJammers and Adults around the globe with Nobel Peace Laureates as we all work together to change the world. This community takes on the Global Call to Action issued by the 10 Nobel Peace Laureates of the PeaceJam board to complete 1 billion service projects by 2018. The Laureates are leading the movement, working… Continue

Lynne Hazelden of Seeds4PEACE invited PeaceJam Co-Founder Dawn Engle and her son Brett Engle, the developer of the new website, to do an interview on her radio show on Sunday. They talked about the launch of the new website on Monday June 1st, and how it ties into PeaceJam and the Global Call to Action.



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PeaceJam has built a brand new website which is combining www.globalcalltoaction.org with www.peacejam.org and implementing a total overhaul of how things work to provide you with a completely user focused site, which, in plain English, totally pwnz. Seriously, it’s really sweet.



If you have never signed up with PJ before, now is the time to start! If you're actively working towards peace through service projects then come register them… Continue

PEACEJAM, PENGUIN AND PEARSON FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION CHALLENGE





Young people everywhere to document projects that change the world and earn the chance to work directly with a Nobel Laureate at their school



Register your service project at http://www.globalcalltoaction.org/

Young people today want to take action to change the world. At the PeaceJam Global Conference at Loyola Marymount University… Continue

We got wind of this nice story written by John Wolfe, a senior at Merrimack High School. Several groups at the school, 1 which attended PeaceJam, have come together to do a fundraiser for Breast Cancer. It’s great to see this spirit of collaboration! Way to go guys.



Several of the groups and clubs at Merrimack High School have similar aims and are separated only by minor differences in scale and method.



Generally speaking, most of the groups are working for the benefit of… Continue